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Horace-Noah posted:Ask and ye shall receive. Suspiciousmarine.jpg,  Pretty sure he needs to appear in every picture you post from now on, it's like a rule or something.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 03:53 |
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| # ? May 22, 2013 07:54 |
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As a judge please let me just say this now: more than one angle/shot will definitely help your chances when voting comes around. I'd really like to be able to see the model from different angles if at all possible 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 03:56 |
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Red Robin Hood posted:As a judge please let me just say this now: more than one angle/shot will definitely help your chances when voting comes around. I'd really like to be able to see the model from different angles if at all possible do you want me to edit my original "oath complete" post with more photos, or post again? You're the boss cool guy.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 04:00 |
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I'm not sure if you should get a special prize for completing your April oath on April 2nd, or whether that should serve as a lesson to oath a lot more next month.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 04:17 |
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Maybe someone should make an avatar and provide some appropriate text, eh? 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 04:38 |
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Dominion posted:I'm not sure if you should get a special prize for completing your April oath on April 2nd, or whether that should serve as a lesson to oath a lot more next month. I'm going to try and do some more this month. I got kind of "lucky" this weekend and came down with the flu, so all I could do was paint and watch sports. Great for oaths. bhsman posted:Maybe someone should make an avatar and provide some appropriate text, eh? I see what you're doing there...
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 04:53 |
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Horace-Noah posted:do you want me to edit my original "oath complete" post with more photos, or post again? Probably easiest on all the judges if you edited your original post. I wasn't directing my post at you in particular but I wanted to get that out of the way so everybody knows
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 04:54 |
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Bahahaha! Guy at my FLGS convinced me to try painting historical minis. These things are tiny... Going to have a lot of fun with them, though.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 05:54 |
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Jcam posted:I don't know how all you assholes can paint so much in a month. What am I doing wrong? It takes me hours of work to pump out one model, and I've done the same paint scheme over and over again on these dumb wolf barbies. All of you oathing lots and lots of models? I hope you drown in your Devlan Mud. Me too buddy. I work full time, then stay late after work to do training. I get home at 10 every night in no mood to paint. So I really only paint on weekends, and only one day per weekend if I do, since I don't want to spend all my free time inside hunched over space barbies. This weekend I had enough time to do base coats and washes on three figures. And then this thread is all "I OATH A MILLION FIGURES AND FIVE HUNDRED TANKS", and three days later they're done.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 08:43 |
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I finally startedon my tankies last night. I'm very happy with how the paint job has turned out - all brush work but still nice and smooth! I even worked out my own funky technique to approximate airbrushing. I'll be famous one day    They go from imperial blue to (GC) to snot green I think. Now to tape it all up so I don't get crapon it painting the rest of the vehicle!
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 10:38 |
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Going to get in on this. Maybe I'll complete more than two oaths this time! I only have HaqqIslam infinity models with me for April, so I will oath some of them to start with.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 10:56 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Me too buddy. I work full time, then stay late after work to do training. I get home at 10 every night in no mood to paint. So I really only paint on weekends, and only one day per weekend if I do, since I don't want to spend all my free time inside hunched over space barbies. This weekend I had enough time to do base coats and washes on three figures. What the gently caress do you do that you're 'training' untli 10pm every night (and presumably starting at 9am)?
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 12:10 |
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Corrode posted:What the gently caress do you do that you're 'training' untli 10pm every night (and presumably starting at 9am)? Ultimate space karate technique? 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 12:33 |
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We now return to our regularly scheduled programing.  Now I just need to redo this 3 times, and figure out how I am going to paint the weapons.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 12:44 |
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Corrode posted:What the gently caress do you do that you're 'training' untli 10pm every night (and presumably starting at 9am)? My schedule quite frequently resembles his actually, which is part of the reason I don't put a lot of time aside for painting. Usually 6am to 8pm for me though, give or take a bit. I just end up painting a lot on weekends. Jcam fucked around with this message at Apr 3, 2012 around 12:48 |
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Corrode posted:What the gently caress do you do that you're 'training' untli 10pm every night (and presumably starting at 9am)? I work 9 till 6. Hour off for dinner/give my eyes a rest. Back at 7 to stare at a computer screen for as long as I can, then ~45 minute trip home. So mostly I get home just before 10. It's not physical training, it's trying to learn new poo poo while still working full time.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 13:27 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I work 9 till 6. Hour off for dinner/give my eyes a rest. Back at 7 to stare at a computer screen for as long as I can, then ~45 minute trip home. So mostly I get home just before 10. High five incredibly-busy painters!  I typically get about 1-5 hours of painting in a week, provided that I'm not incredibly busy or not feeling in the painting "groove." For the oath I'm really going to power through and try and get more done, but waking at 5:45am for work and not getting home until 7:45pm really puts a damper on ones schedule (I only work 3-4 days a week mind you).
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 13:30 |
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Holy poo poo you people. Then again I'm looking at teacher training next year so I'll go from my nice comfy ~35hrs a week to... that. Although at least I'll have long holidays. e: Also travel times I guess, I live 10 minutes from work and I work in what is technically my 'afternoon' so I'm not coming home shattered. Basically if you want to paint lots be a night worker, you'll have no actual social life or other interests anyway so you get lots of tiny mans painted.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 13:31 |
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Corrode posted:Although at least I'll have long holidays. Long holidays filled to the brim with writing lesson plans, running summer outings etc.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 13:35 |
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 13:47 |
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Batch painting isn't really all that hard- it just requires that you stay motivated and have your paint scheme organized in such a way to maximize efficiency. That said, nobody has oathed anything crazy in terms of batches yet. 10-20 models seems to be the most, I think? Duder finished his oath, but it wasn't anything that couldn't be knocked out in a single evening or weekend, which we just had. (Not trying to diminish the already finished oath in any way, btw- they look great, and congrats on being the first to get an oath done!) Mostly, it's just an issue of sitting down to paint, and not agonizing over every stroke of your 00 brush while basecoating. Painting quickly is a skill in itself that can be developed with practice. Maybe use the Oath thread to work on that if it's an issue for you?
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 14:34 |
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Yeah I'm by no means a master painter but my 9 Man-o-War Shocktroopers were done being painted yesterday and just need basing. As long as I'm painting groups that share a similar color scheme, like how the shocktroopers all have red armor with bronze fittings etc, I just go down the line with each color. I usually sit down with a movie on or listen to an audio book and can crank out base coats and washes pretty quick.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 14:47 |
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I am just getting ready to start this and I want to make sure I understand the minimum requirements for this years thread. Im planning on painting a grey knight librarian. HQs count as one level higher so just the one model meets the requirements?
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 15:31 |
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Drumstick posted:I am just getting ready to start this and I want to make sure I understand the minimum requirements for this years thread. Im planning on painting a grey knight librarian. HQs count as one level higher so just the one model meets the requirements? da rulez posted:Category > Example > Minimum* A Space Marine Librarian is a 28mm-scale model but is an HQ and therefor counts as a "large" model and only requires one to meet the requirements.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 15:39 |
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Yes. (I am not a judge but this is the impression I have). e: Beaten like a Geordie wife I think I have the biggest oath in terms of model numbers so far with 23. It's actually harder than normal because a bunch of them are individual models whose schemes aren't particularly set yet but those are countered by all the ones where I know what colour everything will be long before I ever paint it (and half of those are 'two shades of brown and Devlan Mud'  ).
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 15:44 |
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Makin' progress on Kommandotrupp:  While we're on the topic of bulk painting, note that if I was just trying to bang these guys out they would probably be done right now. That's better than most of what I actually play against. Don't stress the speed or perfectionism too much, take pride in your guys not being a grey plastic army.
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Companion Cube posted:While we're on the topic of bulk painting, note that if I was just trying to bang these guys out they would probably be done right now. That's better than most of what I actually play against. Don't stress the speed or perfectionism too much, take pride in your guys not being a grey plastic army. Seriously, this. I got really disheartened the oath thread before last, because I'm not that great a painter and when compared to some of the people, my miniatures looked like they had been finger-painted by a child. Once you stop taking macro photographs of your spacemans (and glaring at their flaws which are made SO OBVIOUS when you upload the image to SA) and instead actually see your fully painted army on a tabletop, getting knocked over by dice and suchlike, quality and detail becomes less of a concern and you can think "Hey wait, my fully painted army actually looks just fine when I'm standing over them with a beer and tape measure"
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:02 |
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Seriously, this. So you're saying the beer goggles effect extends to miniatures, eh? 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:07 |
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bhsman posted:So you're saying the beer goggles effect extends to miniatures, eh? I tried painting whilst drunk once. It didn't go well. KIDS - DON'T DO IT 
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:09 |
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I, Drumstick Oath 1 Grey Knight Librarian
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:17 |
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Seriously, this. Just don't set the beer on the gaming table. Some people don't take kindly to that.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:47 |
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I had my newly painted Assault Terminators had a full slice of pizza deep strike mishap onto them.  Thankfully their paint coats made their invuln save, because that was particularly terrifying for a moment.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:50 |
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Since other people seem to do this, I thought I'd show off some progress on my one of my dudes. All colours bar the flesh and most metallics are basecolours only at the moment. I'm gonna try to paint the black parts of the armour so it looks all polished and shiny and poo poo. We'll see how that goes
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:50 |
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Is it possible to reset the pose a little back on the base? From the front it looks awesome, but from the side it looks like he's about to fall on his face down a flight of grimdark stairs.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:52 |
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You're right, he does. Reversing it so he doesn't lean over the drop makes it look a bit better, but the pose is set in stone I'm afraid.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:55 |
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Why is his shoulder pad bare plastic?
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 17:56 |
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It isn't it's codex grey.
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| # ? Apr 3, 2012 18:08 |
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Leperflesh posted:By way of asking a rules question I'm gonna seem like I'm picking on FiendishThingy, but I don't want it to sound like I'm picking on him so uh... yeah, I'm not. It depends on what the models themselves originally were for. A Warhammer Fantasy skaven would not count as a Mordenheim skaven (and it's hard to tell if it is in the pic). If you hadn't oathed something for HeroQuest, you could enter one of those skaven as long as it belonged to that set. Space Crusade was it's own board game, so mini's from that would count for another system. Adeptus Titanicus appears to be a precursor to Epic, so it would also count as a different system. If any of those are 'counts-as' FiendishThingy, I'd appreciate you changing it in your oath post. If not, no worries. And on a side note, if anyone has a problem with a judges ruling or the contest in general in the future, please bring it up with me in PM or email. thiswayliesmadness fucked around with this message at Apr 3, 2012 around 18:23 |
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HeroQuest didn't come with skaven, but Advanced HeroQuest did (and despite the name, it's a totally different game). Anyway thanks for the answers! I asked publicly only because I felt it was worth getting public clarification on now, before a bunch of time and effort got spent by various people under false assumptions.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 07:54 |
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Had a chance to paint some dudes today and play with the fancy static grass I got in the mail. This is my first try at painting something this scale and while the closeups look a bit crap, I'm really pleased with how they look on the table. Some of my test minis and soon to be based guys: Getting their basecoats:  Fiddling around with bases:  What I got done so far today: 
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